Word: knits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the press conference, the assembled double-knit sports coats and white shoes trooped to the free lunch. Curiously, the Kansas City attempt to claim status as a major league city did not include providing good food. The buffet offering included pressed turkey with bone, tuna fish salad with celery, and Apple...
...rather than the open, freckled brashness of the fancied rookie. He scoffs at the suggestion that he may prematurely have fixed on a career. "It's a great life," the veteran of three weeks emphasizes. And you can't help but envy his quick ascent into the glamorous, double-knit majors...
Even before Watergate, Dean was hardly known outside the tight-knit circle of the White House staff. He shunned publicity, avoided controversy and cultivated a reputation of being one of Nixon's most faithful liege men. As presidential counsel, he worked out the legal basis for Nixon's impoundment of funds, broad use of pocket vetoes and Executive privilege. He also helped arrange Nixon's commutation of jail sentences being served by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa (which was widely interpreted as a political gesture in return for Teamster support of Nixon in the election) and by Mafia...
...seriously. He refused to play the game by Harvard's rules of quiet civility, using his style as a hard-boiled tough egg, two-fisted beer drinking labor negotiator to keep his opponents off-balance. He took over a splintered Faculty in 1970 and in the next several years knit the deeply-rooted divisions back together, sending independent-minded reformers either into disarray or scurrying for the center. As Otto von Bismarck had once manipulated German liberals into supporting his reunification efforts, so did Harvard's Iron Chancellor unite most of the Faculty, restoring a certain reverence for his office...
...humanities--the two fields where honors are granted in a necessarily subjective manner, despite the numerical scale--departments must be classified into three types: small departments, the honors fields, and large departments. The small departments like Classics and the Languages must be considered alone, for they operate as close knit groups on a very personal level. Classics Faculty members know everyone in the Department, and although an effort is made to keep thesis readers unaware of who is reading what thesis, the smallness of the department makes total secrecy impossible...